Nomadland' Makes History, and Chadwick Boseman Is Upset at the Oscars

 Chloé Zhao's movie about the harmed American dream won best picture, best chief and best entertainer. In an astonishment, Anthony Hopkins ("The Father") won best entertainer. 

Frances McDormand, who won best entertainer, in front of an audience as "Nomadland" got best picture. 

Frances McDormand, who won best entertainer, in front of an audience as "Nomadland" got best picture.Credit...ABC, through Associated Press 

By Brooks Barnes and Nicole Sperling 

Distributed April 25, 2021 

Refreshed April 26, 2021, 10:51 a.m. ET 

LOS ANGELES — "Nomadland," Chloé Zhao's reflection on sorrow and the harmed American dream, won Academy Awards for best picture, chief and entertainer at Sunday night's strange service, a phase show broadcast on TV about films for the most part disseminated on the web. 

It was a languid occasion until the last minutes, when foundation citizens presented an emotional bend finishing: Anthony Hopkins, 83, won the best entertainer Oscar for "The Father," destroying the late Chadwick Boseman ("Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"), who was the runaway most loved going into the evening, having been commended by film associations and pundits' gatherings for quite a long time. 

Frances McDormand was named best entertainer for "Nomadland," the third time she has won the honor. "Nomadland" gave Searchlight Pictures its fourth best-picture prize in eight years, a shocking show unmatched to some other forte film organization. "We give this one to our wolf," McDormand said as she held the best picture statuette, an evident reference to Michael Wolf Snyder, a "Nomadland" sound blender who took his own life in March. She at that point released an unbridled wolf cry. 

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April 25, 2021 

From numerous points of view, the 93rd Oscars added up to a festival of variety, an issue that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has accentuated in wake of the #OscarsSoWhite fights of 2015 and 2016, when its acting chosen people were all white. This year, nine of the 20 acting assignments went to ethnic minorities. 

Daniel Kaluuya was perceived as best supporting entertainer for playing the Black Panther pioneer Fred Hampton in "Judas and the Black Messiah." "Brother, we around here!" Kaluuya yelled in bliss prior to switching gears and crediting Hampton ("what a man, what a man") and finishing with the cri de coeur, "When they played separation and vanquish, we say join together and climb."